I had an accident with food?!

[reeferbuddy215]

So I have a 125 gal mixed reef with mostly lps and sps frags I've been doing good at keeping the water Paramators as best as I can get them well I had a full tub of mini full spectrum fish pellets the sinking ones and I accidentally knocked like half the tub into the main tank and I'm freaking out I netted some of the food but the bottom of my tank is now covered in pellets which I'm sure my fish like but is this gonna cause any spikes in po4 or nitrates amd what should I do i just did a big water change yesterday with ro/di water and tropic marine salt mix and I just don't want to mess up what I got going my corals never looked so healthy and colorful amd if they died cuz of this I'd be heart broken. Any tips appreciated thank

 

[bif24701]

Suck them put

 

[reefwiser]

If it happened to me I would put my Diatom filter in the tank and clean it up in 5 minutes.
https://www.reef2reef.com/threads/diatom-filters-anyone.305981/page-3#post-3752403

 

[reeferbuddy215]

If I leave them will my mini brittle starfish eat any of the pellets when the lights are out as I have literally thousands in my main tank plus my 40 gal dual refugium cuz I got some decent sized fish they will eat alot of it and corals like fish poop right lol?

 

[sundog101]

How many pellets are you talking? Any pictures?
I would watch ammonia.

 

[reeferbuddy215]

Well it's hard to say an exact number I was panicking when I heard something fall and then the snow showers of pellets falling to the bottom of the tank but I know it's about 2 months worth of 1 daily feeding a large pinch

 

[reeferbuddy215]

Yeah well I have test kits for everything but my phosphates I can't test till I get a refill of reagent packages for the hanna meter but tomorrow I'm mixing up a small 10% water change and gravity vacuuming anything that's left I guess worse things could have happened, this is why I'm building a separate frag tank for sps mainly

 

[Arvin0677]

I will would do a big water change and suck out as many as possible.

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

I doubt the issues will be worse than an algae outbreak.

 

[Flippers4pups]

Just syphon out the excess.